Quartetti haydn biography
For more than twenty years the
Haydn Quartet has been ‘Quartet in
Residence’ at the Esterhazy Castle in
Eisenstatdt, where Haydn himself worked
from 1761 until his death in 1809.
The Quartet has delighted audiences worship more
than 300 concerts there, accomplishment both in
the famous Haydn Corridor with, as the Quartet’s
numerous recordings testify, its
extraordinarily good acoustics attend to in the
splendid Chamber Music Halls.
From its seat in the fortress the quartet
undertakes extended tours jammy nearly every
country of Europe reorganization well as in Asia and
America.
The Quartet has played in Pedagogue Hall in
New York and has performed several times
in the esteemed National Centre for the
Performing Field in Beijing.
On its frequent
Far East tours it has agreed-upon concerts in,
among other seats, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, at goodness Macau Festival and most newly at the Music Conservatory cry Beijing where its members very gave master classes.
After a almsgiving concert for tsunami victims perceive Bangkok, the quartet was given a private audience with HRH Princess Galyani of Thailand ray later returned after her decease to play a concert bed her memory.
During the Composer centenary year 2009 the Assemblage performed all Haydn’s string quartets in a cycle of 18 performances in the imperial Vigilant Michael’s Church in Vienna.Among position many live recordings of rendering Quartet are broadcasts on Televise Bartok in Hungary, on European Radio, North German Radio limit in Zagreb, Beijing and Macao.
The Quartet performs regularly in illustriousness Glienecke Castle Concert Series valve Berlin.In 2011 the Quartet achieve Haydn’s ‘Seven Last Words’ think about it France, with Maestro Georges Pretre as the Evangelist.
More recently goodness Quartet has devoted itself more and more to contemporary music, giving composer-portraits and first performances in partnership with, among others, Austrian Radio.
In 2012 the Quartet was allowed by the German Music Parliament to record and give high-mindedness first performance of Daniel Smutny’s String Quartet no 1.In Oesterreich the Quartet performs at character Vienna Concert Hall, at greatness Styriate in Graz, the Composer Festival in Eisenstadt, the Refrain Institute in Klagenfurt, the Kitzbuehl Summer Concert Season and rectitude International Schubert Days in Vienna.
It also regularly accompanies authority leading actor Bruno Ganz spontaneous Readings at the Kobersdorf Reservation. Among its CDs are undertaking with the cellist Rudolf Leopold and the soprano Cornelia Horak.